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Using Mobile Phone Text Messaging System to Improve Exclusive Breastfeeding Rate in a Resource-poor Caribbean Island

NCT03853850 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 582

Last updated 2020-03-03

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study will evaluate whether sending educational and supportive mobile phone text messages to mothers of infants, from babies' day of birth until 6 months of age, increases the rate of exclusive breastfeeding in Roatan, Honduras.

Conditions

  • Breastfeeding
  • Breastfeeding, Exclusive

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Mobile phone text messages

From their babies' day of birth until 6 months of age, participating mothers will receive supportive and educational text messages to promote breastfeeding. Messages will be on benefits of breastfeeding, newborn hunger cues, proper latch technique, healthy infant feeding practice, and maternal self care. Messages will be sent regularly, initially several messages every day during the babies' first few weeks of life, then few messages every week. A total of 158 (\*\*\*) messages will be sent. Messages will be sent in English or in Spanish depending on participant language preference.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Caroline Chantry, MD · University of California, Davis

  • Lisa Rasmussen, MD · University of California, Davis

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-09-28
Primary Completion
2019-07-03
Completion
2019-11-10

Countries

  • Honduras

Study Locations

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